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Australia: Three guilty over cannabis crops
Andy Gregory The Age
Friday 07 Apr 2006 Three men who pleaded guilty to charges of cultivating cannabis in Melbourne will spend six months in prison after sentencing in the County Court this morning. A secret witness under police protection, known as 166, was described by Judge David Morrow as "more equal than others" who participated in the sophisticated cannabis farms at several locations. Robert Johanson, 41, was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for cultivating a commercial quantity of a drug of dependence and three months imprisonment for theft of electricity. Judge Morrow ordered that two months of the latter sentence be served concurrently with the former, and that seven months of the total sentence be suspended, bringing the total effective prison sentence to six months. Brothers Frank Felice, 31, and 42-year-old Rocco Felice received identical sentences of 18 months for trafficking a drug of dependence and six months for theft of electricity, with three months of the sentences to be served concurrently. Fifteen months of each combined sentence was suspended by Judge Morrow, reducing the total prison sentence to six months for each of the brothers. All three men had pleaded guilty to all of the charges which relate to a number of hydroponic cannabis crops at Sunbury, Maidstone, Albanvale and Taylors Lakes. The drug crop at the Sunbury house, where Johanson acted as a "crop sitter", was only found when a police officer found a secret entrance to the subterranean drug room concealed beneath a bath tub. theage.com.au
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